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Peter Dicken

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[Wikipedia] Peter Dicken is an English economic geographer whose research focuses on processes and patterns in globalisation. He joined the University of Manchester in 1966 after completing an MA there. He is currently an emeritus professor at the same university, to which he has dedicated his academic life, co

Quotes by Peter Dicken

Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them.

Components

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The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

Consumers

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One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly…

1960s

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A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of…

Activity

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Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond…

Could have been

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One of the most striking developments has been the rise, fall and rise again of the semiconductor industry of the United States,…

Development

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In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent.…

Activity

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Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts…

Corporate

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Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.

Believe

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It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian…

China

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Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically,…

Centre

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the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive…

Activity

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In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than…

Cities

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It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of…

Attributes

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More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between…

Alliances

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Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

Change

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